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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 970 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 126 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 126 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 114 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 100 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 94 0 Browse Search
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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 74 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
ny. Under the false colors of military genius and experience in war, he had solicited a command; after his appointment he had given the reins to self-will, so that misfortune overtook his treachery. In October, 1782, sinking under a fever in a sordid inn at Philadelphia, he died as he had lived, loving neither God nor man. This year is memorable for the far-seeing advice of a neglected New-England man, standing alone and sustained only by his own firmness of mind. Jonathan Carver of Connecticut, who had taken part in the war that wrested Canada from France, had, as a traveller, with rare intrepidity penetrated the wilderness beyond Green bay and the Wisconsin river to the west of what is now Minnesota or even to Dakota. In the midst of the confusion of war, he published in England his travels, with a preface full of deep feeling and of happy predictions that mighty Chap. IV.} 1778. states would emerge from these wildernesses; that solemn temples would supplant the Indian huts
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
tributary streams, rise on the east, while the western declivities are luxuriantly fertile. Connecticut, whose charter from Charles the Second was older than that of Pennsylvania, using its prior c754, increased in numbers and wealth till their annual tax amounted to two thousand pounds in Connecticut currency. In the winter of 1776, the people aided Washington with two companies of infantry,ame. Maryland, which was on all sides precisely limited by its charter,—while Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Virginia, and at least one of the Carolinas, might claim by royal grant an almost Rhode Island and its garrison of six thousand men. He had in advance summoned Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island to send quotas of their militia for the expedition. The council of war of ude enough to acknowledge his obligations. The veil of ordinary events, thus the Governor of Connecticut expressed the belief of the state, covers the hand of the supreme Disposer of them, so that m
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 7: (search)
been ratified. Of thousands of dollars, Massachusetts was rated at eight hundred and twenty; Virginia at eight hundred; Pennsylvania at six hundred and twenty; Connecticut at six hundred; New York, rent and ravaged by the war, at two hundred; Delaware and Georgia, each at sixty. A general wish prevailed to respect the recommendat by eight states against Rhode Island and Maryland. Samuel Adams and Lovell, of Massachusetts, voted for it, but were balanced by Gerry and Holten; Sherman, of Connecticut, opposed it, but his vote was neutralized by that of Ellsworth. The people of the United States, in proportion to their numbers, were more opulent than the peoof Long Island Sound, by way of West Point, to the Delaware. For the convenience of forage the four regiments of cavalry were distributed among the states from Connecticut to Virginia. The troops were hutted as at Valley Forge: they suffered extreme distress for want of food; but, through importations from France, they were bette
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
Ontario the parallel of the forty-fifth degree of latitude. The right to the fisheries was long under discussion, which ended with the vote that the common right of the United States to fish on the 22. coasts, bays, and banks of Nova Scotia, the banks of Newfoundland and gulf of St. Lawrence, the straits of Labrador and Belle Isle, should in no case be given up. Secret Journals of Congress, II. 145. On the twenty-fourth, ten states against Penn- 24. sylvania alone, New Hampshire and Connecticut being divided, refused to insert the right to navigate the Mississippi. Secret Journals of Congress, II. 148. On that subject the instructions were properly silent; for it was a question with Spain alone; Great Britain, according to the American view, was to possess no territory on the Mississippi, Chap. IX.} 1779. from its source to its mouth. On the same day, Gerry obtained a reconsideration of the article on the fisheries. The treaty of Utrecht divided those of Newfoundland be
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
. British fortified and garrisoned the two posts which commanded King's ferry, and left the Americans no line of communication between New York and New Jersey, south of the highlands. A pillaging expedition, sent to punish the patriotism of Connecticut, was intrusted to Tryon. The fleet and transports arrived off New Haven; and, at two in the morning of the fifth of July, one party July 5. landed suddenly on the west of the town, another on the east. Everything was abandoned to plunder: vs were consumed. On the eleventh, the British appeared before Nor- 11. walk, and burned its houses, barns, and places of public worship. Sir George Collier and Tryon, the British admiral and general, in their address to the inhabitants of Connecticut, said: The existence of a single habitation on your defenceless coast ought to be a constant reproof to your ingratitude. Moore's Diary, II. 190, note. The Chap. X.} 1779. July. British had already lost nearly a hundred and fifty men, but
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 17: (search)
slaves had rights. Laws on marriage and against adultery were applied to them; and they were allowed, like others, to give their testimony even in capital cases. Chap. XVII.} 1777. At the opening of the revolution, William Gordon, the congregationalist minister of Roxbury, though he declined to unsaint every man who still yielded to the prevailing prejudice, declared with others against perpetuating slavery, and in November, 1776, published in the Independent Chronicle a plan sent from Connecticut for its gradual extermination out of that colony. In the same month and in the same newspaper, a son of liberty demanded the repeal of all laws supporting slavery, because they were contrary to sound reason and revelation. Moore's History of Slavery in Massachusetts, 177. In January, 1777, seven-negro slaves joined in petitioning the general court that they might be restored to that freedom which is the natural right of all men, and that their children might not be held as slaves afte
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 18: (search)
my life, but the lives of the troops under my command, are entirely devoted to their service. Washington in general orders desired the American officers to wear white and black cockades as a symbol of affection for their allies. The British fleet at New York having received a large re-enforcement, so that it had now a great superiority, Sir Henry Clinton embarked about eight thousand men for an expedition against the French in Rhode Island. Supported by militia from Massachusetts and Connecticut, the French longed for the threatened attack; but the expedition proceeded no further than Huntington Bay in Long Island, where it idled away several days, and then returned to New York. Of the incapacity of Arbuthnot, the admiral, Clinton sent home bitter complaints, which were little heeded. There were those who censured the general as equally wanting energy. The sixth summer during which the British had vainly endeavored to reduce the United States was passing away, and after the ar
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
ney. There seemed no hope of relief but from some central authority. To confederate without Maryland was the vote of Connecticut; with nine or more states, was the opinion at Boston; with so many as shall be willing to do so, allowing to the rest ns, we cannot hold together many days in the present temper of the army. On the twenty-fifth of May, two regiments of Connecticut, worn out by want of clothes and food and pay, paraded under arms, declaring their resolution to return home, or to obged its existence by adjournments. At the convention called in August, 1780, no states appeared except Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire; but a step was taken towards the formation of a federal constitution. After adopting a series of beying the instruction, voted for the measure contrary to his private judgment. Massachusetts,Chap. XIX.} 1781. Feb. Connecticut, and North Carolina alone opposed, New York being divided. Virginia did more. Avowing her regard for a federal union
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
ess had lodged the highest power in the northern and southern departments in the hands of Washington, and France had magnanimously placed her troops as auxiliaries under his command. Before his return, the American general called upon the governors of the four New England states, in earnest and pointed terms, to complete their continental battalions, to hold bodies of militia ready to march in a week after being called for, and to adopt effective modes of supply. Governor Trumbull, of Connecticut, cheered him with the opinion that he would obtain all that he needed. In June, the French contingent, increased by fifteen hundred men, newly arrived in ships of war, left Newport for the Hudson river. The inhabitants crowded around them on their march, glad to recognise in them allies and defenders, and, mingling at their encampments with officers and soldiers, listened with delight to the bands of their regiments. The rights of private property were most scrupulously respected, an
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
he national finances, and by appeals to patriotism, in overcoming the scruples of that body, and obtained from it a charter for a national bank, of which the notes, payable on demand, should be receivable as specie for duties and taxes, and in payment of dues from the respective states. The measure was carried by the votes of New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, with Madison dissenting, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, seven states: single delegates from Rhode Island and Connecticut answered Chap. XXVIII.} 1782. ay; but their votes were not counted, because their states were insufficiently represented. Pennsylvania was equally divided; Massachusetts alone voted against the measure. Before the end of the year, the opinion prevailed that the confederation contained no power to incorporate a bank; but congress had already pledged its word. As a compromise, the corporation was forbidden to exercise any powers in any of the United States repugnant to the laws or con